It's funny how we demand immigrants "assimilate" but the majority party courts the least-assimilated

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9. When you have large numbers of people on two sides of an issue

And they are both strongly passionate about it, you are at an impasse. The three options I see are convince them, compromise with them, or force them. I doubt the first will happen, the third may result in extreme violence, so that leaves the second.

I don't think that compromise is as difficult as it seems, but it is important we understand what they want. I think the key issue is immigration. The possibility of "open borders" scares them to death, even though nobody actually wants that. But they are not clear on what we want, we are not clear on what they want. I believe that a Democratic president who runs on a workable immigration reform package will be the next POTUS. If we can find someone willing to touch the issue.